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Article: Graphic design: Tree line.(Alice Twemlow stages Urban Forest Project in New York City)
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- Design Week
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- November 2, 2006
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Installing large-scale banners - by well-known, international designers - across 33 blocks in New York to promote Green issues could have been a logistical nightmare. Luckily, Alice Twemlow was on hand to ensure it all went smoothly, says Liz Farrelly
GREENING one of the planet's most densely urban environments, amid illuminated advertising and a sea of chain store facia, is The Urban Forest Project. Surprisingly, New York's Times Square has just sprouted lots of trees.
Original artwork, commissioned from an international checklist of graphic design's great and good, alongside up-and-coming talent, has been transformed into large-scale, ...